Abdel Kader Haïdara, who in many ways started the renaissance by wandering the desert in search of manuscripts, persuading families to allow their treasures to see the light of day, said Timbuktu's best days lie ahead of it.
When Joanne Rowling was shivering in Edinburgh cafes, writing what became Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, she could not have expected to be the person who started a renaissance in British film-making not seen since the days of J Arthur Rank.
But walking only recently shed its dowdy suburban image and started a renaissance as a serious workout one that's increasingly popular among savvy urban women.
The Arabs started a Renaissance almost immediately after they became Muslims and spread Islam in the Middle East.
"The 21st-century Masonic Renaissance starts today!" The "renaissance" is Mr. Sturgeon's agenda for reform, jump-starting a membership drive with a new strategy that permits "selective invitation," replacing the old "To be one, ask one" policy that forbade Masons to proselytize.
Slowly, oh so slowly, starting a renaissance, as Mr. Leonard says, "one poem at a time".
He added, "A well-crafted, well-cast comedy has the potential to jump-start a renaissance on its own".
Like an Essence awards ceremony for entrepreneurs, the kickoff to the Black Business Hall of Fame on Thursday in Cleveland is assembling all the luminaries it can muster, hoping to jump-start a renaissance of black commerce.
LONDON, Sept. 2 (AP) — Michael Jackson, a leading beer critic who helped start a renaissance of interest in beer and breweries worldwide in the 1970s, was found dead on Thursday at his home in West London.
Almost a decade after the Watergate closed its doors, the Cohens and their development company have reopened it on a bet that a $125 million renovation to restore its midcentury roots — along with its scandal-laden history — can start a renaissance for the hotel and the offices and residences that surround it.
